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Snow White?: The Tarnished History of Gender Portrayal in Disney Animated Films
(1996)
How are males and females portrayed in full-length animated features? This research analyzes gender portrayal in five Disney films released in the 1990s: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Snow White and ...
Why do you think I laugh? Gendered Perceptions of the Functions of Humor
(1997)
This study examines gendered differences in perception of humor functions in 311 male and female college students. Subjects ratings on three different test instruments were obtained: Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale ...
In the Eyes of the Beholder: French Perceptions of Women and the Occupation, 1940-Present
(1995)
Film and literature provide a vehicle for the exploration of the issues facing women during the Occupation. Many of the ambiguities of the period are personified through female characters, characters that simultaneously ...
The Dutiful Servant, the Captive Bride, the Good Wlfe: The Roles and Relationships of Women in Samuel Richardson's Pamela
(1997)
This research analyzes the roles of women in eighteenth-century England and seeks to establish the ways in which these roles affected their relationships with each other. Using the titular protagonist, Pamela, as the ...
Factors influencing competiteve [i.e., competitive] state anxiety in sport and exercise: a research synthesis
(1998)
A meta-analysis was conducted across twenty-seven studies using the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2; Martens, Vealey, and Burton, 1990) administered to participants in both aerobic and anaerobic sports. The ...
Directions of Goldberg's five-factor approach across the sexes
(1998)
In recent research, validity of Big Five personality measures has been questioned. Specifically, the question of social comparison targets needs research. When persons evaluate themselves on personality dimensions, implicit ...
Is the angel still in the house?: changes in female ideals in nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature
(1998)
The following paper is an analysis of the ways in which Coventry Patmore's image of female perfection, the Angel in the House, and the ideals which it embodies have affected literary works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century ...
How do posttraumatic stress and acculturation correlate with marital functioning in a Bosnian refugee sample?
(1998)
Two of the most pressing problems facing today's rapidly growing population of refugees are dealing with the consequences of their past traumatic experiences (PTSD symptomology) and adjusting to a new culture (acculturation). ...
Aunt Jemima: The Impact Of An American Icon On African-American Women
(1997)
Always the Aunt Jemima. Always the submissive servant and comforting mammy. At least these are the portrayals of African-American women that the media often glorify. As society's primary informant, the media, especially ...
Three Women in a Decade of Change -- A Collective Biographical Approach to the 1920s
(1997)
Perhaps no decade heralded the volume of historical change that the 1920s did. Women’s lives were dramatically affected by the world around them. In the aftermath of World War I, intolerance prevailed. In this atmosphere ...